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Friday the 13th - Part 1 (1980)

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Reviews Counted: 44

Fresh: 26

Rotten:18

Average Rating: 5.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Despite repeated warnings to stay away, a group of fun-loving but none-too-bright teenagers set out to reopen the eerie Camp Crystal Lake, which closed 20 years earlier after a series of bizarre... Despite repeated warnings to stay away, a group of fun-loving but none-too-bright teenagers set out to reopen the eerie Camp Crystal Lake, which closed 20 years earlier after a series of bizarre and unexplained deaths. Now someone is lurking in the woods, spying on the happy campers, and plotting a gory, grisly revenge on those who would disturb the camp's slumber. A horror classic that set the standard for slasher flicks of the 1980s. [More]

Starring: Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon, Harry Crosby

Starring: Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Jeannine Taylor, Mark Nelson, Robbi Morgan, Peter Brouwer, Rex Everhart, Ronn Carroll, Ron Millkie, Walt Gorney, Willie Adams

Director: Sean S. Cunningham

Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Producer: Noel J. Cunningham, Steve Miner
Screenwriter: Ron Kurz

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What makes the movie work is that the slasher genre hadn't been set in stone yet, and some choices that director Sean S. Cunningham makes in the film that work against type.

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03/05/09
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

a campfire boogeyman story designed to do little more than build tension and deliver a few well-timed shocks, which it does with precision and even a bit of artistry

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02/14/09
James Kendrick
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How do you sum up a movie that's really quite awful yet helped define a filmmaking era?

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02/13/09
Brian Webster
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02/12/09
Matthew Turner
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Whether you want to credit or blame Friday the 13th for its role in influencing modern cineplex cinema is a matter of taste. [Blu-ray]

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02/10/09
Peter Canavese
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...a woefully bad slasher flick, complete with an inept cast (including Kevin Bacon in uncomfortably tight shorts); laborious pacing; and an interminable catfight climax.

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02/10/09
Josh Larsen
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Friday the 13th set the tone for the modern slasher flick. So you know which film to blame for all those lousy horror films.

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02/07/09
Christian Toto
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You really have to wonder what exactly made the Friday the 13th series so wildly successful.

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02/04/09
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant Magazine

...perhaps more than any other film, it helped to popularize the slasher genre and codify the formula.

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02/01/09
John J. Puccio
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A skillful, if by-the-numbers, horror pic.

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10/09/08
Dustin Putman
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09/11/08
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A classic Bacon

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02/20/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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It may be one of the most famous, but it's certainly not an original on which others are based.

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09/26/07
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

Unsophisticated by today's standards perhaps, but still contains plenty to satisfy the dedicated gore-hound.

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09/26/07
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For all its shoddiness, the film manages, just barely, to achieve its ignoble goals -- it delivers what it promises.

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09/26/07
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